| Description |
255 pages ; 17 cm. |
| Series |
Everyman's library pocket poets |
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Everyman's library pocket poets.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
A collection of poems and songs by eighteenth-century Scottish writer Robert Burns. |
| Contents |
Folk tales for an enlightened age: Death and Doctor Hornbook -- To a mouse -- The twa dogs -- Halloween -- Address to the deil -- To a louse -- Address of Beelzebub -- Tam o' Shanter -- Religious sentiment and satire: A prayer, in the prospect of death -- Holy Willie's prayer -- The holy fair -- The Cotter's Saturday night -- Prayer -- o thou dread power -- Epigram to Miss Ainslie in church -- Contemporary politics: Ballad on the American war -- A dream -- The fete champetre -- Ode on the departed regency bill -- The rights of woman -- Why shouldna poor folk mowe -- Scots wha hae -- Ode for General Washington's birthday -- A man's a man for a' that -- Does haughty Gaul invasion threat? -- Love and sex: The rigs o Barley -- Mary Morison -- Green grow the rashes, o -- A poet's welcome to his love-begotten daughter -- The fornicator -- The jolly beggars -- a cantata -- The lass o Ballochmyle -- Libel summons -- Ca' the yowes to the knowes -- Auld lang syne -- Yestreen I had a pint o wine -- Ae fond kiss -- Highland Mary -- A red red rose -- O wert thou in the cauld blast -- Comin thro the rye -- Wha'll mow me now? -- O saw ye my Maggie -- Scottish cultural history: Scotch drink -- Address to a Haggis -- Lines on Ferguson, the poet -- The Bonie Moor-hen -- Johnie Cope -- My hearts in the highlands -- Awa, whigs, awa -- The white cockade -- Scots prologue for Mrs. Sutherland's benefit night, spoken at the Theatre Dumfries -- Lament of Mary Queen of Scots on the approach of spring -- There'll never be peace till Jamie comes hame -- Ye Jacobites by name -- Such a parcel of roques in a nation -- Occasional and biographical verse: I'll go and be a sodger -- My father was a farmer -- The death and dying words of poor Mailie, the author's only pet yowe -- Epitaph on my honoured father -- Epistle to Davie, a brother poet -- Epistle to J. Lapraik -- The auld farmer's New-Year morning a salutation to his auld mare, Maggie -- Lines written on bank-note -- The farewell -- Reply to a trimming epistle received from a Taylor. |
| Subject |
English poetry. (OCoLC)fst00912278
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English poetry -- 18th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1799
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| Genre/Form |
Love poetry.
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Love poetry. (OCoLC)fst01726661
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| Added Author |
Carruthers, Gerard.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| ISBN |
9780307266163 (US) |
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0307266168 (US) |
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9781841597768 (UK) |
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1841597767 (UK) |
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0307266168 (alk. paper) |
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9780307266168 |
| Standard No. |
9780307266168 |
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